Starting with simple definitions, you gradually build your understanding of each word until you can use it confidently. Learning new words becomes simple because you build many links in your brain from what you already know to the word you want to learn. Membean Memlets — little packets of knowledge — are carefully designed to make it easy to build these links. Each of our Memlets throws another hook into your brain. Vocabulary sticks because these hooks don’t come off easily.
Learning words from context is a natural way to learn.
The Context Memlet was specifically constructed to make it
easy to process cues. This Memlet actively engages your
brain, bolstering long term recall…
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There is strong evidence that one particular
learning strategy favors vocabulary recall above all others —
Memory Hooks. Time and again this mnemonic method has proven to be
a versatile vocabulary learning strategy…
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The Examples Memlet shows you how words are used in a
modern context. Nothing here is Shakespearean, Dickensian,
esoteric, or exotic; these example sentences are from modern
journalistic resources…
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Studying word formation is an important skill, but identifying
roots and mapping them to meaning is not always straightforward.
The Word Ingredients Memlet shows how roots combine to make
meaning…
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The Constellation Memlet is useful in practicing for
"analogies"-type test questions. It arranges words as a network of
ideas and concepts. Navigate through more than 150,000 words to see how they
relate to others…
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The Related Words Memlet provides a grouping of relationships among words.
More than just synonyms and antonyms, these present broader
relationships than found in any traditional thesaurus…
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